Part of the answer is Roberts' fiercely conflicted feelings about sharing it.
Indeed, to an American reader, the novel seems keyed to some earlier historical and cultural moment: an era when having central heating still impressed, the loss of faith remained a burning literary subject, the very idea of personal fulfillment conflicted fiercely with the obligation to parents, and nobody talked about sex -- or anything else.
He is at the center of a murky and fiercely argued conflict: does the psychiatrist's duty to warn the potential victim of a violent patient nullify that patient's right to confidentiality in a court of law?
Felix Jared Harriss) may be brilliant, but he is socially awkward, doesn't know how to dress, is obsessed by work and his pursuit of the "eureka" moment and is so fiercely in conflict with Mom that his arrival home marks the return of his childhood stammer.
Photographing the men half naked and asleep in the middle of the fiercely contested conflict in Afghanistan reminds people of vulnerability and aggression.
With comments like these, I find myself reflecting on the distinction between a deadly, fiercely political conflict raging in the Middle East and a religiosity played out each day in the lives of Muslim Australians.
Gaillard was designed to reaffirm Angevin authority in a fiercely disputed conflict zone and the keep, although militarily impressive, contained only an anteroom and a royal audience chamber, and was built on soft chalk and without an internal well, both serious defects from a defensive perspective.
But the city has many sectarian interfaces and conflicting housing demands: overcrowded Catholic neighbourhoods next to dwindling Protestant districts that nevertheless remain fiercely territorial.
Her character was fiercely loyal to the motherland, but also conflicted as a mother (blimey, no one saw that coming).
The best we can do is manage our differences, ensure that misunderstandings don't escalate into conflict, fiercely resist Putin's foreign policy when it would negatively impact U.S. national security interests, and be ever vigilant for opportunities that may unexpectedly arise.
